Someone once asked me, “What are biggest leadership pet peeves?” I didn’t need to think about it. I said, “When a leader says one thing and does another, or they don’t mean what they say.”
What did friendship mean to me during my years as a pastor? What is your experience at the intersection of leadership and friendship?
Sometimes we solve people’s problems by giving them answers instead of fostering insight. These choices are unhealthy dependencies.
Everyone thinks about leaving ministry. I’ve been there. I know pastors and staff members who are there now. And, I’ve known leaders who actually took this route. It happens.
An aviation term called a death spiral describes what can happen to a plane in nighttime or poor flying conditions when a pilot loses his sense of the plane’s horizontal orientation. In ministry, leaders can often get caught in a similar downward spiral.
Every church is a church plant. No contemporary church came into existence ex nihilo. All churches had starting points–planting points.
As a leader in the church for over forty years, among the lessons learned one thing is for certain: Very little is for certain.
Do you know why people might leave your church? It may not be for the reasons you’re thinking.
The more I lead others and the longer I live, the more I learn about relationships. And relationships require follow-up.
The funny thing about how we define our lives is that we identify them through a negative focus. That’s why self-identity is so important.
